Hayden Donnell is a contributing writer for The Spinoff.
Grab your political popcorn for a merciless appraisal of the election's high profile players.
Hayden Donnell recently spent some time in Wellington. This is his review.
The National leader was simply articulating an orthodox theological position.
Labour has made an extraordinary ascent in the polls, and is now clinging to a mostly unthreatening brand of incremental centrism. Hayden Donnell counts the cost of that strategy.
A little bit of Covid-19 is a small price to pay for a whole lot of rugby, writes Hayden Donnell
According to Property Investors Federation spokesman Andrew King, some tenants don't actually want new heat pumps.
Dozens of major cities are building cycleways and pedestrianising streets as they adapt to the post-pandemic world. What's going on in Auckland?
For every nugget of gold printed by The Spinoff, there are several more nuggets of slightly less lustrous gold. Hayden Donnell lists some of his rejected story ideas.
In New Zealand, as overseas, authorities are dealing with two parallel crises: the Covid-19 virus and the maelstrom of misinformation surrounding it.
The National Party figure thought to have adopted a fake name and called up talkback is far from the first political figure to try this tactic.
More scandal? More yaks? More Jami-Lee Ross? Read on to find out...
So shouldn't National be on board?
Winston Peters took the stage to launch an unlikely bid to stay in parliament on Sunday. Hayden Donnell went along for a close encounter with the New Zealand First faithful.
It's time we show Nigel the affection and respect he surely craved, writes Hayden Donnell.
So-called dirty deals have been roundly denounced over the years. Hayden Donnell argues that they need to be normalised, and even embraced, in September’s election.
Struggling to find the correct apportionment of blame for the failure of light rail in Auckland? Hayden Donnell is here to help.
Auckland has made painstaking progress toward becoming a functioning modern city. Now its councillors may put that in jeopardy for a proposal that will save ratepayers an average of 47 cents a week.
Todd Muller has been criticised for posing in front of an upside down tino rangatiratanga flag. Hayden Donnell uses investigative journalism to find out who’s responsible.
For four years running, at the exact same time of year, New Zealand has been terrorised by gangs of avocado thieves.
Last night New Zealand witnessed one of the most exhilarating, confronting political stories to air on national television.
Heta Gardiner's questions offer a glimpse of a media world with different incentives, priorities and cultural values.
Last week, an inaccurate tweet about suicide spread so far that both the Ministry of Health and the Mental Health Foundation had to respond.
Why has New Zealand's startup community been so prominent in the Covid-19 discussion this past week?
This summer, Nestlé released two new flavours of Kiwi Onion Dip. Hayden Donnell, our nation’s leading Kiwi onion dip researcher, delivers the company an angry rebuke.
The 2010s will go down in media history as the Take Decade. Hayden Donnell combed through every single take made in New Zealand in the last 10 years to compose …
Hayden Donnell looks for inspiration and innovation on how to house the city’s future.
